Michael Barrett

Michael Barrett’s 2009 in Review…

Michael Barrett’s 2009 Year in Review Photostream…

2009 Means smiling faces of little ancient soul grandchildren -

laughing, loving and shining God through their piercing, radiant eyes…

Year 2009 in review.

Bless my new extended family, all my old dear friends, my lovely children and their children and Alexandra.

Wow…

What a year - change, growth, expansion, tears, joy, pain, love, forgiveness, personal transformation, release, clearing, closure.

The year began in California where times were tough. But something beautiful took place there.

We found Ananda Palo Alto.

What an amazing and spiritually pure place.

People walk their talk and God is always present because God is welcomed and acknowledged in every action, every word and every deed - every moment, all the time.

I love Ananda and all the people I met there who accepted me unconditionally for who I am and who I grew to love and appreciate in a deeply profound way that was a new experience for me in my life.

After all my years of training, my heart chakra opened fully for the first time during a Sunday morning service and meditation.

It was a major accomplishment for me and a gift - one that I fully understood and was aware of as it took place.

I found that the spiritual task of practicing ‘forgiving myself’ - as instructed by Asha Praver - was something that I did poorly although I diligently made an effort to do so.

For me it was something much easier said than done. I found that I was both angry at myself and many people in my life.

Over time, it became clear to me that much of that anger I had been carrying in my heart for a long, long time.

It did not serve me yet I did not know what to do about it.

Once again - easy to talk about - and entirely different to resolve and heal within myself in practical application.

Being part of Ananda for 5 months changed my life. Bless you all and bless your kindness, love and beautiful open hearts.

The search for learning how to forgive myself led me to find Pamela Gregory, which and led me to Dr. Ed Carlson, Heart Forgiveness and Core Health in St. Petersburg, Florida.

The next phase was the time I spent in Montana.

This was the first time I lived there in over 20 years.

It was a painful time, yet such a joyful time, spending two wonderful months with my grandchildren and three of my kids.

The Bitterroot Valley is such a beautiful place. The river, the mountains, the sunsets and the sky at night.

And all the 6 little beautiful beings who are my grandchildren - such joy and love and clarity and newness and excitement about life.

And my amazing beautiful daughters Arabella and Tahahlita and my son Lucky.

It was so nice to see them and love them and be in their presence and feel their kindness and their beauty as human beings and young adults.

What a blessed man I am.

I can remember often telling friends of mine (when my son was a little boy) what a cool and kind person he was naturally and how I couldn’t wait until he was older so we could talk and have a beer together because he was such good company and such a fine and considerate human being.

Well in 2009, we had that beer - a few of them actually. We got together in Half Moon Bay and then again in Walnut Creek and then again several times in Montana before I headed east in June.

It’s truly amazing the inherent joy that exists between a father and his children - without words or explanation.

How our DNA creates an extension of us through our children - through the expression of their own individuality and consciousness - is a miracle that never ceases to amaze me.

This aspect of ‘family consciousness’ is even more pronounced with a relationship between a man and his grandchildren - perhaps because
all the emotional trauma, changes and debris between parents and their kids is not there.

Also as young children the grandchildren are still young and clean and pure and whole without judgment.

Apparently, Halloween was fun this year…

Pamela Gregory

During this time, I met Pamela Gregory online via Facebook and we became close friends. She became my adviser and worked with me closely with EFT to help me heal some deep seated issues in my life.

In many ways Pamela was my angel. She was contacted by a man named Neil Habgood - our connection to Dr. Ed Carlson. BTW, Neil has subsequently become a very close friend and associate.

He is a good man.

The Next Phase Was Heading East…

In early June, it was off to North Carolina to meet Dr. Ed Carlson the first time and spend a private intensive weekend with him training in Heart Forgiveness. The setting and the energy was magnificent - flowering trees and fragrances - high atop a ridge in the Blue Ridge mountains.

Wow…

On July 4th,  Sarasota, Florida became home.  What a change this was for me personally. I had been to Florida on three previous occasions in Jacksonville and Orlando and had absolutely no desire to be there.

In spite of that perspective, suddenly I felt a strong pull to Florida - a deep and intuitive voice calling me to follow my heart and take the risk, let go and that all would be provided for.

I listened to my intuition and without a plan, without resources, without family, connections or friends there,  the west coast of Florida was where I landed. I found the energy attractive and clean and expansive for me - and curiously enough, it felt like home almost immediately.

Expansion, Rapid Change and Inner Turmoil…

The remainder of the year has been a period of immense expansion energetically and Spiritually.

And throughout the process of this expansion, rapid change has been the primary ingredient - fueled both by the choice to grow and the desire to change.

It also became clear to me that wanting change is not enough. Acting upon it and being willing to fully accept what happens is another piece of the puzzle and the experience.  From a practical standpoint, real concrete change required release of all the old baggage in my life.

If you have ever done a sincere fast, one of the side effects is to release a lot of toxin into the body as you cleanse.

Something else about Spiritual growth and energetic expansion, once you start there is no going back. Once you know, you can never “un-know”.

In many ways, the period of time from July through December 2009 has been a continuous series of Spiritual and energetic fasts and cleansings…

The freeing and clearing process has been comprehensive, accentuated by Qigong, Tibetan Yoga, Meditation, Siesta Key, the Mighty I AM Presence and an active and accelerated training program in Core Health and Heart Forgiveness.

In December I received my certification as a Core Health Facilitator.

The Universe Is Shifting

That the Universe is shifting to align with the new awareness of mankind that is emerging has magnified the overall experience immensely. In many ways it has been a deeply moving and turbulent year - with highly charged emotion and energy as a by-product of massive cleansing and release.

So much transition…

As I ponder the depth of the love that is expanding within me and throughout my consciousness and energy, I am filled with joy, awe and an unspeakable understanding.

What an honor this experience has been and what a huge blessing and opportunity it is.

My heart is filled with the I AM Presence.

Bless you all today, in 2010 and forever.

Michael

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Letting Go, Letting God and Love…

Sounds like a mantra from a self development seminar, doesn’t it?

Letting go is one of those things that turns out to be a difficult thing to actuate in real life. It sounds simpler than it is.

How many times have you gotten home from an inspiring lecture or seminar all fired up and ready to implement everything you learned into your life just to realize you haven’t got a clue how?

And absolutely a month after the fact you’ve pretty much forgotten that good feeling you had when you were all fired up.

Letting go - or not - is actually part of our identity, the who we are piece deep in our core. A deep aspect of identity health is what Dr Ed Carlson calls, “the root of holding on“.

We hang on to what we habitually are used to doing and to all the subconscious programing - until we don’t. 95% of what we do all the time is automatically being run by the subconscious mind - and the weird part is that we don’t even know it - or at least we are unaware of it consciously.

The subconscious just runs the show day in and day out. And that’s ok, depending on what’s in there. What if the default programs in our subconscious - from the past - are not in alignment with who we are today?

What if most of it is old junk and emotional debris from countless emotional hurts, traumas and external programming that have been accumulating for a lifetime?

What if we found out that we don’t have to do it the way we have been any more and that there is an alternative?

Imagine what you could do in your life if you really could:

Let go

Let God and

Love

Now we really can.

Thanks to guys like Dr. Bruce Lipton, Dr. Ed Carlson, Gregg Braden and Dr. David Hawkins there is a way to do this. It’s a method called comprehensive kinesiology, or Core Health.

You can literally change your life in 12 weeks. I did.

And it only took me 35 years to find it, so I could.

You don’t have to wait 35 years and you don’t have to find Core Health, I did that for you.

This tool allows you to literally LET GO by going into your energy with an energy eraser and cleaning out all the junk and debris and confusion and letting go of it once and for all.

Then you can go into the energy and make new energy decisions and begin living in your perfect moment and let God take control again by choosing to relinquish your desire to run the universe and truly letting go.

And during this experience, you learn to love again - love your self, love life and love God.

Pure and simple, effective and permanent. Heal the separation and move on.

Get in touch and find out about events and facilitators in your area. This is about to expand really fast because it is so effective and the word is getting out. There are only 65 certified facilitators in the entire US and I am one of them. It’s a great bunch of dedicated people.

Contact me here.

Or leave a comment on this blog. I always appreciate you feedback and suggestions.

I AM Blessings for you and yours in 2010.

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Core Health Facilitator

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When You Thought I Wasn’t Looking…

I can remember when I first realized that my daughter was merely a mirror for:

• what I was thinking
• what I was saying
• how I was expressing myself into the world
• and my intentions…

It dawned upon me that I had become responsible for imprinting a great deal of myself onto the ‘blank canvass’ of this amazing, new, conscious being who did not reason or think or intellectualize.

She just was…

She just reflected back to me everything in my consciousness. I took a different approach to my thinking and my speech on that day and at that point in my life.

I was 28 and she was 7 months. Now she is 28.

This is a quote from Abraham…

The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination — that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated. — Abraham

We often forget to think about how we impact the world around us. But we actually create it wherever we go.

I realized that children are merely mirrors of our emotions, our language, our thinking and love. They do not analyze or think when they are infants. They just are. They reflect everything we are back to us.

I love children - they are instant and permanent blessings.

I originally saw this in a note on Facebook by my friend, Kathy Tarochione. An then it showed up again in an email from a friend in Montana. I don’t know who wrote it originally but I thought it was worth sharing.

Follow this and see how you feel when you read this.

It really hits home to me. What about you? If you like it share it.

WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN’T LOOKING

A message every adult should read because children
are watching you and doing as you do, not as you say.

When you thought I wasn’t looking I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator, and I immediately wanted to paint another one.

When you thought I wasn’t looking I saw you feed a stray cat, and I learned that it was good to be kind to animals.

When you thought I wasn’t looking I saw you make my favorite cake for me, and I learned that the little things can be the special things in life.

When you thought I wasn’t looking I heard you say a prayer, and I knew that there is a God I could always talk to, and I learned to trust in Him.

When you thought I wasn’t looking I saw you make a meal and take it to a friend who was sick, and I learned that we all have to help take care of each other.

When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw you give of your time and money to help people who had nothing, and I learned that those who have something should give to those who don’t.

When you thought I wasn’t looking I saw you take care of our house and everyone in it, and I learned we have to take care of what we are given.

When you thought I wasn’t looking I saw how you handled your responsibilities, even when you didn’t feel good, and I learned that I would have to be responsible when I grow up.

When you thought I wasn’t looking I saw tears come from your eyes, and I learned that sometimes things hurt, but it’s all right to cry.

When you thought I wasn’t looking I saw that you cared, and I wanted to be everything that I could be.

When you thought I wasn’t looking I learned most of life’s lessons that I need to know to be a good and productive person when I grow up.

When you thought I wasn’t looking I looked at you and wanted to say,’Thanks for all the things I saw when you thought I wasn’t looking.’

Share this with all of the people you know who do so much for others, but think no one ever sees. Little eyes see a lot.

Each of us (parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, teacher, friend) influences the life of a child.

How will you touch the life of someone today? Just by sharing this with someone else, you will probably make them at least think about their influence on others.

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.

Love children…

I AM Blessings

How We Learn…

Here is a discussion I recorded entitled, “How We Learn”.

This is unedited content from a new book that I am writing.

It’s about an hour long and I will post some text excerpts here as soon as possible.

Enjoy…

Michael Barrett
© copyright 2009 - askmichaelbarrett.com
all rights reserved

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Michael Barrett - Transformation Central…

Michael Barrett - Big Changes

During 2005-2009, there were so many changes in my life and I met some absolutely amazing people. It was period of real transformation for me. Starting with the dynamic experience traveling as a staffer with Peak Potentials, a self-development seminar company for 18 months. Prior to that, I had only flown occasionally. But with Peak I was on planes in and out of 28 venues all around North America - and it was exciting.

We met so many people on planes, in airports, riding shuttles to hotels, as well as the 20,000 - or so - people who attended the seminars as participants. I learned how cultures varied in different cities and locations. I worked on events in Orlando, Dallas, Los Angeles (multiple times), Secaucus, Seattle, Morley - Alberta - Canada, Ellenville New York in the catskills, Vancouver - BC, Pemberton - BC, San Diego, Calif, Beaumont, CA (near Palm Springs), Atlanta.

In addition, I met and got to know staff at the hotel and resort venues, at airports, people riding shuttles, people waiting for planes, eating at restaurants. The High Energy Core Team staffers that worked for Peak Potentials bonded and we became a very close knit extended family. These were high caliber people with brains, a sense of humor, talent and energy. So just being in their presence on a regular basis has a positive impact on our lives.

Being on staff enabled me to meet and develop personal relationships with some of the top speakers and trainers around in the self development world - what an exciting experience.

Helping participants grow and break through their personal barriers also added to our own personal transformation because whenever others grow and improve within our presence, we also benefit.

Not only did I participate on staff for the Peak events, I attended them, met another ~2500 people more intimately as a participant, and had my own personal transformations and breakthroughs.

I also lived in many places.

I lived in Seattle, Scranton - PA, Atlantic City - NJ, Wildwood at the Jersey Shores, Goochland - VA, Atlanta - GA, Maidens - VA, Menlo Park - CA and Hamilton - MT.

Some for several months at a time up to a year and a half.

Cross country trips

Beginning in 2006, I made three cross country trips by car - round trip. You learn a lot about yourself and the country you live in when you drive through it. The people you meet, the experiences you have and the beauty you see of this magnificent planet teach us more about who we are and remind us where we came from. You also see the kindness inherent in human nature and this can heal so many things within us. Cross country trips affirmed for me that America is full of kind and generous people.

Other teachers during that time period include a wonderful personal relationship, major national economic upheaval, a personal financial roller coaster dealing with issues around investments, integrity, self esteem and a fairly comprehensive study of the Law of Attraction.

Facebook has brought quality tuned-in people into my life - many of them.

Over the last few months, my extended family has grown immensely through the wonderful friends I have made on Facebook in many countries. I have learned so much, have received so much loving support and created a deep appreciation for the magnitude of technology and it’s impact, not only on social consciousness, but also the collective consciousness.

A number of my Facebook friends have become as close to me as my friends from Peak Potentials.

Pamela Gregory and Dr Ed Carlson

Through Pamela Gregory, one of those rare and amazing people that changes your life when you know them - and part of my new Facebook family - I met a man named Dr. Ed Carlson

Dr. Carlson founded a healing modality he named “Core Health” that is , in my opinion, revolutionizing how we grow consciously. This system realigns the energy body - kind of like replacing the natural defaults for health and purity we all started with as children.

In June 2009, I went through my initial training with Dr. Carlson and we have mutually agreed that I am going to accomplish my Core Health Facilitator Certification before the year is out. In addition, I am incorporating this effective method into my own training programs and physical training repertoire. It is an amazing tool to put in your tool belt.

And I believe it is going to change my life forever adding missing pieces of understanding I have been searching for since 1971.

Ananda - Palo Alto

Another huge piece of the puzzle was solved for me when I found Ananda. Through my experience attending services there, meditation classes and many group functions, I met some of the most loving and conscious people in my life.

Ananda was a big part of finding part of my Soul again. Truly, this part of my extended family really changed my life. This is the first time that I can remember where I have truly experienced unconditional love.

Another thing happened at Ananda that I have been striving to accomplish most of my adult life. My heart chakra opened up for the first time. Having been blessed with two very powerful teachers in Qigong and martial arts who helped me to open and balance my channel chi meridians, I have been practicing qigong regularly since 1988.

The meditation, the singing, the chanting and purification practices I studied and practiced at Ananda empowered me to accomplish something that neither qigong master was able to stimulate in me. For the first time, my heart chakra actually opened up during a service one day.

In February 2009, a friend handed me a little book about a series of 5 exercises called the Tibetan Rites - an ancient Tibetan method of physical rejuvenation through exercise.

I am convinced that practicing this series of exercises, coupled with the energy from Ananda, daily meditation and qigong practice empowered me to open my heart chakra.

A Time of Change

It has been a time of massive change - not just for me personally - but for the country and the world. There are so many other experiences, great books, tele-seminars, blog discussions that contributed significantly to my growth and expansion - too many to mention in this post.

But the bottom line is I have morphed and am a new man who is learning to be more grateful, more loving and stronger than ever before.

What I learned:

• How to cry
• How to love deeply and truly
• How to forgive
• Compassion
• How it feels like to be invisible and alone
• What commitment means
• How to be a good listener
• Listen to my intuition
• Everything that happens in our life is a choice
• I found my soul again
• You never know what you know until you do.

Blessings of gratitude, love and light.
Michael Barrett, Florida, July 2009

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Michael Barrett Photostream

Michael Barrett Photostream 2005-2009

You know it’s a bugger when a professional baseball player has the same name you do because it’s often hard to get the screen name you want for blogs and social media sites and other domains - they are already taken…

So I often use the name of the book I wrote, “Healthy Wealthy Boomer” as a screen name.

This photo stream is a pictorial story of my life journey from 2005 through 2009.

It reflects the best parts of my experience during that time. And looking back, I have grown so much and learned so much, it is clear that I am a blessed man.

If you are so inclined, please take a tour for a few minutes and enjoy the journey with me.

Michael Barrett Affirmation

I am in alignment with my true purpose in life.
I live in the present moment,
In love,
In awe,
Seeing once again,
The innocence of my youth,
Knowing that I am whole and perfect
And always have been.
There is nothing that I lack.
I live and flow in abundance,
There is only God and Love.
All life comes at me with ease, joy and grace.
I am a beacon of radiant joy and health,
I am warrior,
I am lover,
I am kindness,
I am compassion,
I am grandfather,
I am healer,
I walk in gratitude,
With an open heart,
I live to serve.
I Am That, I Am,

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How I Think of You
When I’m Alone…

I think my world is empty
without you in it.

I often hear your voice -
sometimes a snippet of a recent conversation,
but mostly just the echo of how you sound,
not so much the words.
It is the way I hear your gentle whisper in my ear
when your lips are very close,
the sound so quiet,
a person two feet away
could not decipher your secret message.
It is the feeling of your voice.
The sense of what it feels like when we’re close.
It is your presence,
and I can feel your breath.

Sometimes I get a flash,
a passing picture of your head
tilting to the left or right,
the way you throw your head back gently
when you’re laughing,
the fun belly gut laugh
that gives me so much joy to hear.

I think of the moments
when I remember holding you,
when you have cried and sobbed in my arms,
and I just held on until the very last drop
until you fell asleep or
until the heaves of breath subsided.

I think of your skin the way it smells.
the way it wrinkles gently with a certain touch,
as if in preparation for the next…
the apprehensive quiver of anticipation of
electric skin;
the way my hands can sense the slightest
ripple of reaction or contraction with almost no physical contact.
Those hands of mine are pretty smart when it comes to your skin.

I see you running to me with your arms wide open,
with your succulent heart and laser eyes,
I hold you close and smell your hair
and for half an hour,
you are my air.

I hold your fingers in my hands
and touch every single place
on every digit with the tip of my index finger
for an hour…

How do I think of you when I’m alone?

I sit and look at you for hours
from the back when you are reading,
or scripting at the computer
or from the side to see your spralling beauty
as you sleep quietly,
playing wrap around pillow games with your knees.

I see the kindness in your eyes when you speak
and the love in your eyes and heart when you touch
or when you hold a little Christa
or an Emma
or a Lindy

I think of walks along the beach
at Trainer in New Jersey
and private Wildwood moments.
walking around the lake at Tarva
golden memories
in the master Covey bedroom
and the kitchen
enjoying Isagenix shakes and salads
and working side by side computing
sharing joy of quiet and aloneness
And in the master bath
I feel the shower on my skin
as I lather your back
and legs
and stomach with the soap
and feel the warmth
and soothing security
of water turning Holy in your presence

I think of eating Sunday breakfast
on our final day at Long Branch
the very week we met
and how easy words could flow between us
through intermingled comfort in the air

How do I think of you when I’m alone?

I hear every word we left unsaid
each time we went away angry
without resolution
and the lingering anguish
of unforgiven thoughts
or the unspoken words that needed saying
how empty it feels
to not have had the strength
and sense of present moment
in the living
to honor love
when the chance was there
and only now
to think and speak alone
the unthought and unspoken
thought and word
that would have been so easy

How do I think of you when I’m alone?

I think of you beside me
With wonder in the air
living every moment
and living every share.
I see us loving deeper yet
in realms unknown by most
I see us letting go
and letting go again
walking in alignment
in the garden of our joy
until the horizon of our life
and you and me are one.

by Michael Barrett
(c) Copyright 2009

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This is Dedicated to My Wife…

YOU ARE A STAR…
And your Light eliminates the darkness wherever you are.

I honor you. I honor your strength. I honor your Spirit.
Blessings of Divine Love, Joy and Prosperity.

I love you truly.

The Gentle and Forgotten Art of Blessings

This video is becoming a big part of my life theme.

As co-creators we have so much power within our consciousness. Every act, every visualization, every thought, every intention and every word creates the world around us.

Truly, we have forgotten the power of Blessing.  Let us remember exactly what that means.

To Bless is such a simple act.  Yet so powerful - it changes the world and brings more Light into the world every time we do it. Bless your life at every moment.

The Gentle and Forgotten Art of Blessings

Quoting from “The Game of Life,”

The enlightened man, therefore, endeavors to perfect himself upon his neighbor. His work is with himself, to send out goodwill and blessings to every man, and the marvelous thing is, that if one blesses a man he has no power to harm him.

Remember to bless everything.

It is an act of faith upon which the law of attraction is activated.

Bless without expectation or without knowing or trying to figure out what will happen. Bless and allow.

It changes the world and removes the negative from your life, your mind and your emotions.

Blessings of Divine Light, Love, Joy and Prosperity.

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